bernard blackmantle (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1907. First Edition Thus. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Volume II. Contains black and white and colour illustrations and plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Some marks and scratches to boards. Textblock is shaky.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. CRUIKSHANK Robert (illustrator). The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books. The English Spy. An Original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous etc drawn by Bernard Blackmantle in two volumes. Red buckram boards with black titles to cream title labels pasted to spines. No inscriptions. Boards to both volumes rubbed sunned worn and bumped with fraying to top of spines. Title labels worn with some small losses. Eps to both volumes cracked. Ffep of volume 2 missing and frep tornwith loss to top section. Some sporadic light foxing throughout. Otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xx, 219; 201. Original publisher's blue papered boards and brown spines, lettered black at the spines on labels. Engraved title page vignette. Half-title present and a tipped in 12 page catalogue of books for sale by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, dated April 1825. Occasional foxing in text, covers slightly rubbed and slight wear at hinges, otherwise sound, very good. Decent copy.

Uniform matching hard back binding in contemporary half burgundy leather covers, gilt title to the spines, marble paper covered boards, top edges gilt. Contains [xxiii] 417; [xvi] 399 printed pages of text. Regrettably all of the colour plates have been removed, still with title vignettes, monochrome headers and tail-pieces. Light rubbing to the boards, hinges sound and tight. Still a fascinating read albeit with the colour plates long gone. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Hardcover. Zustand: good. Robert Cruikshank (illustrator). First Edition. 198p, octavo. Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank. A good copy in 3/4 leather and brown cloth. Outer hinges cracked, chipped at crown. Pages foxed. Bookplate pasted to front end paper of John Wanamaker Jr, who served as United States Postmaster General (1889-1893) and was considered a pioneer in marketing. A unique copy thus.

leather_bound. Cruikshank, Robert & Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator). First edition. 412, 399 pages. 24 x 15 cm. 71 hand-colored aquatints with tissue guards, of which 67 are by Robert Cruikshank, 2 by Rowlandson and one each by T. Wageman and G.M. Brightly; full page woodcut [Five Principal Orders of Society], and 74 woodcuts in the text, of these 23 are by Rowlandson, the others by Cruikshank, Wageman and Huges. With first issue points -- plate at p.389 in Vol. I misdated 1284 and p.222 in Vol. 2 blank. CBEL Vol. 14, p. 225. " The English Spy, both in text and in illustrations, is sometimes as coarse as ever was Smollet in word or Gillray in drawing, it contains many lively representations of life, high and low, gives much curious information about real people still recongisable under their fictitious names [including Charles Kemble, Macready, Grimaldi, Mme. Vestris, Mathews and Wallack, and also George IV and his mistress] , and preserves many tales of a past age." Further, CBEL notes this work was considered an offshoot of "Life in London," and that Westmacott "appears to have been a blackmailer; but was a spirited and amusing writer." Purportedly, Westmacott received a horsewhipping from Charles Kemble three years after this work was published. ABBEY LIFE 325. TOOLEY 504. Elegantly bound by W. Root & Son. raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, elaborate cover border panel gilt motifs frame inner four corner floral designs in gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean, bright set; plates and text, Vol. I covers rehinged. Early 20th century full brick crushed morocco. Teg. Two vols. Fine.